What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
#1What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 8:15am
I know we have a thread about what song best describes you, so what character do you see yourself most in? (Wow, my grammar is terrible. All these prepositions ending sentences...)
I'd have to say Sir Percy Blakeney from "The Scarlet Pimpernel" for me. I'm a ridiculous goofball with over-the-top fashion sense and some... eccentric mannerisms, but I also think I'm at least a smidge more intelligent than I generally let on.
Also, for some bizarre reason, people are always saying I remind them of Mary Poppins.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#2re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 8:51amSally Durrant Plummer from Follies and Dot from Sunday in the Park with George. I saw Follies at Encores and IMMEDIATELY connected with Sally, but it honestly took seeing Jenna Russell as Dot to really make me connect with the character. I love Bernadette Peters as Dot, but Russell's Dot was more earthy, imo.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
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#2re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 10:07amj. pierrepont finch, in life and in business
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#3re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 12:34pmhmm...maybe beggar woman from SWEENEY because she is crazy and a soprano.
"The good news is I have an excellent Tony speech. The bad news is I've had it for forty-five years."-Elaine Stritch
#4re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 12:48pm
Clara from 'The Light in the Piazza'. But I'm naturally immature, no pony-kickings here. 
#5re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 1:53pmEponine from Les Mis
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#6re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 2:09pm
Kate Monster. Just older and real.
Updated On: 11/10/08 at 02:09 PM
#7re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 4:28pmSome days Amalia from She Loves Me (hence the screenname), some days Phyllis from Follies.
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#8re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 4:32pmEponine 110% : (
#9re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 4:57pm
Nothing against you personally, but I never did get why so many people relate to Eponine. I mean, there's the whole unrequited love business, but that's not so uncommon. And how many people have nasty sewer-dwelling gangster dads, and are in love with dorky revolutionaries, and are pretty much homeless and starving, and would literally DIE for some guy who barely knows the first thing about you?
Maybe it's because I'm so much of a Cosette-- very, very sheltered and pampered but restless-- but I've never much liked Eponine.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#10re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:04pmMortiz from Spring Awakening. Im 19 howver, when I was around the age of the character I had many of the same actions and thoughts as him. I was not a happy person back then. I was confused about life, unhappy with my home and love life and contemplated ending it all. though i actually kind of think many people go through a suicidal phase now that im older and wiser back then i felt like i was alone in the world. When I first hear this music I instantly connected to the music for many reasons. The score was fun and really rocking and just I always enjoyed it. Then when I really listened to the lyrics and hear the characters and I first heard Touch Me, Then There Were None and Dont Do sadness it reminded me of who I used to be. This is why the piece means so much to me, why I love it so much and why I hate to see it leave.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
#11re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:06pm
Evan Goldman-13
Horton-Seussical
#12re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:11pm
I think any girl who's ever fallen utterly and hopelessly for a guy she cannot be with has a little Eponine in her. When we project ourselves onto characters, we go with what's accessible. None of us have been part of the student uprising of 1832, I hope none of us have been sold into prostitution by our fathers or lived on the streets of Paris. But when girls who have lost their hearts so painlessly to someone so inaccessible, it's very hard not to latch onto the girl who is displaying the emotions we have felt right there on the stage for everyone to see.
I can't tell you how much I wish I didn't have a little Eponine in me. 
Shannon Bo Dannon
Broadway Star Joined: 8/19/08
#13re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:17pmI see a little bit of Kathy from The Last 5 Years in me, along with Kate Monster from Avenue Q and Belle from Beauty and the Beast.
#14re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:19pmI'm a little embarassed to say that, at the time anyway, I really, really identified with Moritz from SA. I guess he's a pretty universal figure, but a year ago, I identified with him very, very strongly.
#15re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:48pm
I see a lot of Ilse from Spring Awakening in me.
edit: and some Johanna too. Odd mix, I know.
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
Updated On: 11/4/08 at 06:48 PM
#16re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/10/08 at 8:47pm
Someone said Dot from Sunday earlier... I totally identify with Dot as well. For many reasons, one being having horrible concentration, and being in very similar relationship. The show has taught me a lot about myself actually.
Lately I've been really getting into Follies.... It's so weird, one day I totally identify with Phyllis and other days with Sally.
and Schmerg- It's so funny to hear someone who prefers Cosette. I was in a production of Les Mis recently, and the cast was always talking about how annoying Cosette is (for essentially taking Marius from poor Eponine, showing a lack of strong emotions besides being blindly love, etc) though I suppose it's not really her fault. I can see where you're coming from though.
#17re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/10/08 at 8:50pm
PLEASE don't hate me...
Elphaba
It's true
Also Ariel - but not from this production...
Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken
#18re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/10/08 at 9:14pmWhy would we hate you just because you're green, badly dressed, and have a scarecrow boyfriend? We're much more enlightened than that nowadays.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#19re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/10/08 at 9:17pmAgnes Gooch
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#20re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/10/08 at 11:31pmBobby from Company.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#21re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/10/08 at 11:39pmGeorge in "Sunday."
#22re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/12/08 at 7:42pm
Cathy from The Last 5 Years. Everytime I listen to Climbing Uphill I'm reminded of myself and what I've thought at every single audition I've ever gone too. Since I'm only 17, I don't know much about the whole failed relationship thing, but every other aspect of Cathy that you get from listening to the recording, and even some between-the-lines stuff I've picked up myself remind me of myself.
Also, there's some Elphaba in me...the outsider who always has someone around to one-up her or overshadow her, who doesn't so much show that she cares about being different, but longs to fit in deep down.
And a bit of Mimi Marquez...her live life to the fullest attitude, and don't hold back.
Mix them together, and I think you get a good dose of me. :)
And when the night has finally gone, and when we see the new day dawn, we wonder how we wandered for so long, so blind. The wasted world we thought we knew, the light will make it look brand new, so let it shine..."
--ntn
#23re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/12/08 at 7:56pmMaggie (from A Chorus LIne) with a little bit of Belle.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Radiana
Broadway Star Joined: 10/28/08
#24re: What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?
Posted: 11/12/08 at 8:28pm
Julie Jordan in Carousel
I married a man that was pretty unstable. Having a Florence Nightengale complex I thought I could help him. He committed suicide three months before our son was born. I went through some very challenging times back then.
I may not know a lot about theater but I know that I love it.
Updated On: 11/12/08 at 08:28 PM
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